{"id":354356,"date":"2026-01-06T01:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354356\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:55:14","slug":"pac-man-joins-the-sonic-racing-crossworlds-roster-later-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354356\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man Joins The ‘Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds’ Roster Later This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

If you thought Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds<\/a> was slowing down anytime soon, think again. Sega has announced<\/a> that the Pac-Man Pack will be available on 7th January 2026.<\/p>\n

Alongside the upcoming DLC, which includes the iconic Namco character as a playable racer, PAC-MAN Festival is also kicking off a day later on 8th January from 4pm PT \/ 7pm ET \/ 9th January 12am GMT until 11th January at 3:59 pm. PT \/ 6:59 p.m. ET \/ 11:59pm GMT. Note that you don’t need to buy the Pac-Man pack to take part in the festival.<\/p>\n

Pac-Man’s arrival is the third in the Season Pass line-up, with Mega Man set to join the race later in the year along with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Avatar: The Last Airbender.<\/p>\n

\"Sonic<\/a> Image: SEGA<\/p>\n

Those of you looking for some more free goodies, though, NiGHTS is available<\/a> to download for the game right now, too.<\/p>\n

And hey, if you happened to get Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds on Switch 2 over the holiday period, know that this is the way to play the game portably<\/a> and is a huge upgrade over the Switch 1 version.<\/p>\n

Will you be racing as Pac-Man and the ghosts in the DLC? Speed on down to the comments.<\/p>\n

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About Alana Hagues<\/p>\n

\"Alana<\/p>\n

Alana has been with Nintendo Life since 2022, and while RPGs are her first love, Nintendo is a close second. She enjoys nothing more than overthinking battle strategies, characters, and stories. She also wishes she was a Sega air pirate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was slowing down anytime soon, think again. Sega has announced that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,137,376,19395,214,2357,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-354356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-pac-man","tag-sega","tag-sonic","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}